I actually don't think nostr devs realise how bad it looks when they use ai art. I think they assume a user will think 'ah yes, this dev's primary skill and concern is coding, these AI images are merely placeholder images'. What a lot of people will think is, (after their initial gut reaction of ๐Ÿคฎ 'guk AI slop') is that it is symptomatic of the kind of user already present and the kind of user they wish to attract. And that is pretty bad as AI art is mostly associated with scams targeting the most gullible. Cc @Vitor Pamplona @Kieran

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There's literally nothing worse than what you have. A monotone grey banner would be better than the current AI slop. It's literally AI slop plus bitcoin AND it's even got a mistake. If I was trying to sabotage a company I would suggest they use this image, but I wouldn't even dare cos I would assume they'd know I was trying to ruin them. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
I think I would personally go for a v minimal colour background, you can make it fancy like what nostrudel did with their avatars and have the colour chosen by some sort of hex xrm the npub. But perhaps this should be a competition:).
Yeah, at first, I thought why the heck dont nostr devs just have better logos and icons. But I the. Realized that the design is part of the Open sourceness. If you donโ€™t like the design, send something better.
Sure, but the initial impulse is to use ai slop. And then you have to make a case to implement something else lol. It would be better if the initpa go-to wasn't AI slop.
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